On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Gabe Warren wrote:
Tomas Larsson wrote:
Doing a netstat on my server, I find a strange connection.
It's a crond-job with Apache as owner, and it seems to go to an
irc-server, called 193.110.95.1:ircd, "carouge.ch.eu.undernet.org", anyone
that knows what this is??
Do you have awstats installed? Check and see if you have any hidden
directories in /tmp. There is an awstats exploit that allows uploads as the
apache user. I found a process running as apache called init.d on one of my
servers. It too was initiaiting connections out to IRC. The EnergyMech irc
bot was uploaded and executed from the /tmp/.bin directory.
This person has explained in detail his experience.
http://www.angelar.com/~jeremy/computer/hacked.html
Maybe this is what happened to you.
Just FYI, awstats-6.4 has that particular security hole patched. If you
are running anything older, upgrade now!
gabe
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